Purchased traffic

[Herb61]

I purchased some traffic for the first time. I'm getting about 500 hits a day but that is about all. I have heard about forced clicks but don't know to much about it. I have a feeling that it is a waist of money. Has anyone had any experience in this area…
Herb

[FlyinCJ]

I've never seen anyone have success with the purchasing of traffic. Advertise your site and spread the news via word of mouth/other sites.

[0A0nly]

I've been having a good long look through the threads the past day and I found this one and it intregued me "PURCHASING TRAFFIC"

For a long time I have been working on optimising the websites that i own, including the purchase of quality backlinks? is this what this means on does anyone understand what purchasing traffic actually means?

Would be a nice thing to be able to do especially in areas where your weaker

[had]

i prefer organic traffic.. it's worthy :)

[geordie joe]

For a long time I have been working on optimising the websites that i own, including the purchase of quality backlinks? is this what this means on does anyone understand what purchasing traffic actually means?



To me purchasing traffic means paying someone to visit your site. There are many sites that do this.


The web site charge advertisers for each visitor they send to the site, then pay their members to visit the sites. Typically they will charge the advertiser 2 cents per visit and pay their members 1 cent to visit the sites.

I can't see the point in paying for this type of visitor as they are only on your site to earn 1 cent. They won't care about what you are selling, nor even notice. Most of the time the user will open your link in a new tab, but quickly click back to the previous tab before your page loads. After opening a number of sites they will close them all without even see the site.

[BajaGringo]

I have read about "purchased traffic" but it never made much sense to me. I guess it probably has a lot to do with what you are trying to accomplish with your website. If all you are interested is having a high visitor count on your counter, reset it to a higher number manually...

Kind of ridiculous isn't it???

[China Tea]

Wouldn't that be like fooling yourself?

I have a commercial site and I don't know how buying traffic can help me increase my sales. :confused:

Will it increase my site's popularity with online shoppers? Again, I don't know how.

Will it push my site up to number 1 in the serps? Same answer - don't kow how!

But then I do not know a lot of the how's and the why's, anyway . . . so . .:lol: :rolleyes:

[Wing Chun]

directly purchasing traffic can be a mistake because there is indeed forced trafficking

best way to spend money is buying ads. if you wanna PM me with your budget i can help you find some great rare deals. offer goes for anyone ;-)

[0A0nly]

Guys I looked more into the above and realised that purchasing traffic is pointless because the visitors coming through will prob only click to make money and leave the site..

[Jez]

I would be very wary of buying traffic unless you are able to sell them something. The chances of getting traffic that are interested in what you have on your site is very minimal. At best it will cost you more in bandwidth I expect. The best way is to get more quality links to your site and do some SEO to increase the search engine traffic.

[moneymakerster]

Hi all
The most important factor of "Purchase traffic" is buy the "targeted traffic". You can get this from Adwords, Ezine Solo das (>$99) and etc. If you want the free targeted traffic for instance mlm prospects, you can go to Adlandpro or linkreferral.com. For myspace, it is more for social activities. Hope help8-)

[eukhost.com]

The biggest question you should ask is do you want real visitors on your website or just random clickers who are paid to do so. Although it might help you show on paper that your website has got traffic and also boost the Alexa rank but it ain't worth it in the long run.

[steve_c]

The best way is to get more quality links to your site

Hi :-D

I'm finding the issue of getting quality links to my site the trickiest part of the whole thing...

I know having great content will encourage quality links over time etc..etc...

But has anyone had any success in buying quality links?

I know its a dodgy business because google looks down upon such practises... but i would be very interested to know if anyone has any success in doing this..

As for purchasing traffic... i feel the same as everyone else that its a total waste of time and money...

But purchasing quality links i'm not so sure about...

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

[geordie joe]

But has anyone had any success in buying quality links?

I know its a dodgy business because google looks down upon such practises...

How would google know?

Yes, if a site says "Pay to have a link to your site on here" and there is a link to your site there google may assume you paid for the link.

But if the site just says "contact us to have your link here" and when you make contact the webmaster asks for money, google isn't going to know.

[webado]

Google finds patterns typiclaly associated with link exchanges and paid links (buying or selling). Enough they find one association between 2 siets and then any other siytes associated with those get painted with the same brush.

Here's a similar type of scanner:
http://www.bad-neighborhood.com/text-link-tool.htm

This one focuses on linking into potentially bad neighbourhoods.

[Jez]

Hi :-D

I'm finding the issue of getting quality links to my site the trickiest part of the whole thing...

I know having great content will encourage quality links over time etc..etc...

But has anyone had any success in buying quality links?

I know its a dodgy business because google looks down upon such practises... but i would be very interested to know if anyone has any success in doing this..

As for purchasing traffic... i feel the same as everyone else that its a total waste of time and money...

But purchasing quality links i'm not so sure about...

Anyone have any thoughts on this?


I don't condone buying and selling links - only advertising ;-) But, you may not have taken a look at text-link-ads. com yet. I am not sure but I think that the quality is vetted and you can see what you are getting. Take a look if you haven't already done so. They are not all that cheap by the looks of things :( but they do provide what you seem to be seeking.

Jez.

[geordie joe]

Here's a similar type of scanner:
http://www.bad-neighborhood.com/text-link-tool.htm

This one focuses on linking into potentially bad neighbourhoods.

I tried it for my jigsaw site and got a load of "blog spam" and other warnings.

I think some of the regulars here should try it, using my site url. If I read it correctly it is saying some of you could be bad neighbours.

[geordie joe]

I don't condone buying and selling links - only advertising

What's the difference?

All adverts are links, and all links should be adverts!

[steve_c]

I tried it for my jigsaw site and got a load of "blog spam" and other warnings.

Yeah i got that too!! I can only think it comes from my posts here on statcounter...

I read a thing about google trying to crack-down on paid links by encouraging people to report them etc.. but it obviously goes on..

The only reason i would consider it would be to raise the PR on my site.. but then i suppose your then locked into it because as soon as you stop paying you lose the links and all the PR that goes with it..

I checked out that text- link - ads thing Jez.. and requested a custom proposal to see what they offer... a minimum $100 bucks a months not cheap tho..

Hmmm... it needs to be thought over very carefully first i thinks...

[geordie joe]

I read a thing about google trying to crack-down on paid links by encouraging people to report them etc..

Google asking people to report things they can spot for themselves, now there's a thing.

Could it be that google can't spot them, but has always led us to believe it can?


I checked out that text- link - ads thing Jez.. and requested a custom proposal to see what they offer... a minimum $100 bucks a months not cheap tho..

Hmmm... it needs to be thought over very carefully first i thinks...

Very carefully!

[Jez]

I checked out that text- link - ads thing Jez.. and requested a custom proposal to see what they offer... a minimum $100 bucks a months not cheap tho..

Hmmm... it needs to be thought over very carefully first i thinks...

What links are you after specifically? There are other places and ways to get links. $100 per month min is quite a bit if you can't immediately make that money back.

[steve_c]

What links are you after specifically?

Hi Jez,

Same as us all i suppose :-D

Good quality, relevant links to my decoraating site..

Home improovement links would count too i guess...

When i first started i spent a lot of time requesting link exchanges.. but i've slowed down alot now. I had a bit too many links coming from my site and was beginning to get worried it would have a detrimental effect.

I'm still not 100% sure about that..

I know it takes time but PR is important so the more links the better... so i heard..

What happened to that PR update by the way?

Thanx

[geordie joe]

Can I just say that, as far as backlinks are concerned, you only need one. That is the backlink that enables google to find your site.

Once google has found your site no other links matter. It will judge your site on it's own merrit, not the links it contains or the site that link to it.

Don't ever believe someone who says "google doesn't like" because they are wrong. Gooogle likes everything. and I mean everything!!!!!!

[Jez]

Once google has found your site no other links matter. It will judge your site on it's own merrit, not the links it contains or the site that link to it.!

That's not true. Google can judge your site on the links it contains in a few ways. for example if you link to bad neighbourhood sites it will not be favourable.

Also, linking to other sites can seriously water down the focus of a site (if you link to the wrong ones). Lets say that you have a decorating site as the OP has and you are linking to, lets say a golf site, then google will start to associate your site with golf sites and not decorating or home improvement sites. The Similar Pages link next to your google result used to show this more accurately than it does now.

Also, one link is usually enough to get your site spidered and indexed in the google results but google will not judge your site on its own merit at all. It is reliant on other sites telling it how good the quality is. Lots of link popularity = good results.

Anchor text also plays a huge part in google ranking algorithm - lots of links with pertinent anchor text influence google more than anything does.

Hi Jez,

Same as us all i suppose :-D

Good quality, relevant links to my decoraating site..

Home improovement links would count too i guess...

When i first started i spent a lot of time requesting link exchanges.. but i've slowed down alot now. I had a bit too many links coming from my site and was beginning to get worried it would have a detrimental effect.

I'm still not 100% sure about that..

I know it takes time but PR is important so the more links the better... so i heard..

What happened to that PR update by the way?

Thanx

The PR update is very strange indeed so far. :S

Link exchanges with relevant, quality sites should not hurt your cause. I know what you mean about too many links going out though - you don't want it to look like a link farm.

Have you submitted to some quality free directories? They are always a good place to get free, one way links from. Check out this site seo2seo.com. The owner is very strict about the directories that he lists. There are free and paid directories in his list.

Another fantastic resource of directories is info.vilesilencer. com/main.php?rock=seo-friendly-list.php scroll down that page and you will find an spreadsheet download of over 500 SEO friendly directories to submit to. That should keep you busy for a little while :-)

Good luck!

Jez.

[geordie joe]

That's not true. Google can judge your site on the links it contains in a few ways. for example if you link to bad neighbourhood sites it will not be favourable.

What's a bad neighourhood site?

but google will not judge your site on its own merit at all. It is reliant on other sites telling it how good the quality is. Lots of link popularity = good results.


Not true, I had a site that contained nothing but one broken link on the home page. Google found it and it got to number one for phrase for that link. It was number one for months, beating all the big airline sites, flight/holiday shops and comparison sites.

Google judged the site on it's merit only as it had no other links, no back links and no content.

It must have been the least popular site on the internet, nothing to see on it and it never got a visitor until google indexed it.

[Jez]

What's a bad neighourhood site?

Spammers, link farms, penalised sites, illegal sites, etc.

Not true, I had a site that contained nothing but one broken link on the home page. Google found it and it got to number one for phrase for that link. It was number one for months, beating all the big airline sites, flight/holiday shops and comparison sites.

Google judged the site on it's merit only as it had no other links, no back links and no content.

It must have been the least popular site on the internet, nothing to see on it and it never got a visitor until google indexed it.

I would have to see an example as this goes against every aspect of how google and most popular search engines work. I don't see how google would have judged the "merit" of one broken link. If they had judged it at all I fear it would not have been good news for you. Far worthier sites with proper content would have ranked for the phrase had it actually been judged.

Also, how long ago was this? google did have an issue a while ago in which they assigned far too much weight to sites with very little content - i.e. one word, one link, one H1 tag or one title. Nothing to water down the key word density, you see. This has been fixed now - quite a long time ago. It threw up a whole new lot of spammy "splash" pages with just a title with the title repeated in a H1 tag.

[geordie joe]

Spammers, link farms, penalised sites, illegal sites, etc.

Does that include hardc*re p*rn sites

I would have to see an example as this goes against every aspect of how google and most popular search engines work. I don't see how google would have judged the "merit" of one broken link. If they had judged it at all I fear it would not have been good news for you. Far worthier sites with proper content would have ranked for the phrase had it actually been judged.

Just checked, it was last month/end of june and the site had 5 broken links not just one. But it was number one just days after uploading it.

Also, how long ago was this? google did have an issue a while ago in which they assigned far too much weight to sites with very little content - i.e. one word, one link, one H1 tag or one title. Nothing to water down the key word density, you see. This has been fixed now - quite a long time ago. It threw up a whole new lot of spammy "splash" pages with just a title with the title repeated in a H1 tag.

If it was an issue with google it wasn't fixed quite a while ago, my site was number one until about two weeks ago.

Try a google search for "flying cardiff to athens" in the rusults look for a site called flying-to. That was the site, but at the time it had no datafeed so only contained 5 "made up" links to show how they would look. It also had no menu, as these are created from the data, and no google adds.

[steve_c]

Hi,

I agree with all of that Jez :-D and thanks for that seo2seo tip...i'll look into that...

The only thing i can think of with geordie joes miracles... is that they are pretty obscure search terms... "flying cardiff to athens" "bristol to accra" :confused:

There may be slightly different rules for terms like that...

[webado]

Results from differnt datacenters more likely.

From where I'm looking right now I can't find that site at all in the first 100 results.